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... This very theme is central to the poem, “The Unknown Citizen”, written by W. ...
From the very beginning, with the epigraph, the citizen is referred to as a number and not by his name. ... Auden then dedicates most of the poem to describing the Unknown Citizen, a man who has done nothing out of the ordinary and is overly predictable as seen in this stanza:
He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be,
One against whom there was no official complaint,
And all the reports on his conduct agree,
That, in the modern sense of an old-fashioned word, he was a saint,
For in everything he did he served the Greater Community.
Approximate Word count = 550 Approximate Pages = 2.2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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